Sony's VAIO UX490N now on sale: yours for $2500

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stitifier @ Nov 4th 2007 6:24AM

I don't understand how a handheld device with an SSD and a purportedly mobile-centric processor gets around with a $2500 price tag and still only yields 1.5-3.5 hours of battery life. My $300 discount Toshiba laptop does that.

Yes, I know that they're distinct products, but the fact remains that for the amount of money that I would otherwise love to spend on this sexy, sexy machine, I expect more in terms of battery life. Connectivity, graphics, the whole bit-- none of it any good if you have to keep plugging in your machine every couple hours just to use it.

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Jon @ Nov 4th 2007 6:50AM

Well it has a smaller battery... There is also an option for larger battery which increases the battery time to up to 7 hours.

SSD capacity is nice.

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Homeboy @ Nov 4th 2007 7:49AM

You have you have to bare in mind that this device is a handheld with the performance of a 2 years old PC. Can't have it both ultra portable, kick ass specs and uber battery performance.

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Carlesious Davis @ Nov 4th 2007 8:09AM

They probably want another couple hundred for a higher capacity battery.

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Wwhat @ Nov 4th 2007 8:42AM

intel core2, guess that's the choice that doomed the batterylife?

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Temple @ Nov 4th 2007 9:59AM

THe issue is that the battery is the size of a cell phone battery and powers a fully functional PC. As already mentioned you can get a larger battery, but that will likely add heft.

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Benz145 @ Nov 4th 2007 10:37AM

I definitely wouldn't say that it has the performance of a 2 year old computer, the having an SSD means the drive is much faster than any standard HDD, graphics are decent as well, capable of playing many different games (WoW for example, and F.E.A.R). I use the UX180 (about 1.5 years old now) as my primary desktop because it can handle everything I need to do, which is multimedia and internet browsing. Sure you won't get insane desktop power out of it, but for its size its extremely powerful.

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Eric Leung @ Nov 4th 2007 7:38PM

well im hoping that 1.5-3.5 is active battery life... if standby is that little, well that kills the point of having a mini computer w/ you right?

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